Gerard O Brien

Work is well advanced on replacing the leaking roof of the former Dunedin chief post office.

Jane Ussher, long our pre-eminent portrait photographer, has journeyed south and produced a superb series of images in Still Life, although her would-be subjects departed the scene a century earlier.

Being a GP is now a 9-to-5 job and has lost some of the "exhilaration and excitement" it once had, says recently-retired Dunedin GP Tim Carey-Smith.

Teaching first-aid skills to people with mental illness and intellectual disabilities is a confidence-builder as well as having a practical value, says Pact educator Matthew Peppercorn.

In the early 1950s, London portrait photographer Douglas Glass generously mused that his young assistant could produce an image from a blank negative.

Fault line Work began yesterday on removing asphalt from a section of the 446.6m Dunedin Railway Station platform. New asphalt will be laid on the northern end of the platform before work starts on the southern end.